Review: Mumbai Love, or Why the hell is SamYG not in this film?

Mumbai Loveis an ambitious Filipino movie that has a lot of potential and eyeliner. It's a rom-com that uses neat camera tricks (or whatever that's called in film jargon), such as couple-only slow-mo, or magically changing shirts off-frame, and also Bollywood dancing, which in my humble opinion looks better onscreen with a flash mob-like number of participants rather than just a few handfuls. It also aims to bridge the culture gap between Indians and Pinoys.

Ella: "Yes, we can flirt and all, but no kissing even on our wedding.

Ang Mga Kidnaper ni Ronnie Lazaro

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I mentioned in my previous Cinemalaya reviews this year that independent cinema is dead. That's because major players in the Philippine film industry have started dipping their hands in indie turf.

Well apparently, indie cinema is not dead. It just moved to a different circuit, by the name of Sineng Pambansa.

Scribbles From the South

The new home of Philippine independent cinema.

Pridyider

Another local movie that fell under the "horror/thriller" category this year─these things are actually gaining ground in the movie industry and there's no signs of letting up.

Just like Carlo J. Caparas and his massacre flicks before.